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David Carr on death and rebirth in American media

NYT media columnist David Carr on the carnage in the Manhattan media industry and the incubation of the next generation. From the NYT: Those of us who covered media were told for years that the sky was falling, and nothing happened. And then it did. Great big chunks of the sky gave way and magazines [...]

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Why journalists get slaughtered in the Philippines

Yes, Iraq, Afghanistan and Russia are horrible places for journalists, but Terry Gould explains why the Philippines are also a shooting gallery. From the Nov. 27 Globe and Mail: As Canadian journalists were celebrating the freeing of their colleague Amanda Lindhout from captivity in Somalia this week, their relief and joy were tempered by the [...]

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